The mission of the Voter Participation Program is to increase voter participation among historically disenfranchised communities. For over 20 years, Project Vote has developed and run large-scale voter registration drives and Get Out the Vote programs that placed paid canvassers—occasionally volunteers—of local community organizations in high traffic sites in neighborhoods of color.
Currently, Project Vote fulfills this mission by providing specialized technical help to partner organizations and nonprofit service providers who want to run voter engagement efforts within their constituencies, and by contributing leadership, knowledge, and critical infrastructure to the civic engagement sector.
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Graham County prefers to vote: Arizona’s registered voters on the rise
Arizona also showed one of the highest increases in voter registration in the nation at 66 percent in 2012. Read more
Voting for America Sues Texas on Behalf of Voters and the U.S. Constitution
Citing clear evidence that Texas’s election code related to voter registration violates the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and the U.S. Constitution in several ways, Voting for America, an affiliate of Project Vote, filed suit today against the state of Texas. Read more
Questions on Voting
Some of you have asked us how to check if you are registered to vote, if you are eligible to... Read more
The 26th Amendment was certified 30 years ago
The nonprofit Project Vote reported that only 49 percent of American 18-year-olds were registered to vote in 2008. Read more
Project Vote and ACLU Sue to Block Suppresive Florida Bill
Today Project Vote is pleased to join the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (ACLUFL) in filing a lawsuit in federal court in Miami to block implementation of damaging new changes to Florida's election law until those changes can be reviewed and examined by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) or the U. S District Court for the District of Columbia, as required by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Read more
By Accepting the Conventional Wisdom on the Deficit, Obama Is Ignoring the Lessons of 2008
As a Project Vote study notes: "individuals who voted for the first time in 2008 strongly favor an active role for government in ensuring economic fairness and educational opportunity." Read more
Research Memo: First-Time Voters in the 2008 Election
In this research memo, Lorraine C. Minnite examines trends among new voters in 2008, particularly the surge in turnout among minority an low-income voters. Read more
Video: 2010 GOTV Effort in St. Louis
A video highlighting the 2010 GOTV effort conducted by Project Vote and the Missouri Citizens Education Fund in St. Louis. Read more
California Exceptionalism: Kamala Harris Makes It a Clean Democratic Sweep!
According to an analysis of the 2010 mid-term elections by Project Vote, at the national level, the voters that put Barack Obama in the White House back in 2008 stayed home. Read more
Project Vote Releases New Analysis of Who Voted (and Who Didn’t) in 2010
While the 2008 electorate was the most diverse in American history, and voters gave the majority of their votes to Democrats, the 2010 midterm election experienced unusually high participation from older and wealthier voters who strongly favored Republican candidates, according to a new analysis released today by Project Vote. Read more